al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 2391
✧ The issue of the man with authority.
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بِشْرٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ وَهُوَ ابْنُ عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ عُقْبَةَ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ بْنِ جُنْدُبٍ قَالَ
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «إِنَّ الْمَسَائِلَ كُدُوحٌ يَكْدَحُ بِهَا الرَّجُلُ وَجْهَهُ فَمَنْ شَاءَ كَدَحَ وَجْهَهُ وَمَنْ شَاءَ تَرَكَهُ إِلَّا أَنْ يَسْأَلَ الرَّجُلُ سُلْطَانًا شَيْئًا لَا يَجِدُ مِنْهُ بُدًّا»
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Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Sulaymān
- Muḥammad b. Bishr
- Shuʿbah
- ʿAbd al-Malik / Ibn ʿUmayr
- Zayd b. ʿUqbah
- Samurah b. Jundub
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Begging is scratches with which a man scratches his face. So whoever wishes may scratch his face, and whoever wishes may leave it—except that a man may ask a ruler for something he cannot do without.”
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